at least in my experience, they report only on hacks, not pirate releases (like "someone hacked the tenchi browser, and extracted it from the game"), but their forums are well moderated (anyone even asking where to find the former example was moderated out, for instance).
it's just two paragraphs for $DEITY sake. Ok, I'll tell you, lazy boy: besides cooling with liquid N2, they tweaked the processor and the memory voltages.
Hi Kjella. I work at Minas Gerais State Assembly (our State legislative house). We have 3000 employees and approximately 700 workstations. Why? 1. Many employees do not need to do paperwork. 2. Many employees have paperwork as a small part of their jobs, and can share a workstation (police officers, especially foot-soldiers would be most certainly part of those). Here, we do have drivers, office-boys, security people, building maintenance people, computer maintenance people, in this category. 3. Many employees have rotating times, and so they can share a workstation (repeating the item 2). Again, we have people like the tachigraphs, that rotate their shifts. When I wander around (and I do so a lot, because I have 7 different in-house-bred programs to maintain and I many times I have to go to the users' workstations), I often see people doing the non-computer-involving part of their work. OTOH, we *do* have a lot of servers: web servers, intranet servers, database servers, storage servers. I think there are 15 or so servers, at least, in our network. Some of the data is compartimentalized, so there is a lot of stuff being processed. Got it?
I will explain why I think this. There are three possible scenarios: (1) the GPLv3 is compatible with the GPLv2; (2) the GPLv3 is incompatible with the GPLv2 and has a "fallback to the GPLv2" clause, like he LGPL doas; and (3) the GPLv3 is totally incompatible with the GPLv2, probably by force of being more restrictive than GPLv2.
In the first and second cases, I, as a user, and as a redistributor will Always opt for using the code under the less restrictive conditions. In the third case, I would not touch the code.
All GPLv2 or later will be used by me under GPLv2 terms unless GPLv3 has any advantage (such as permit linking) and no other strings attached.
The GPL, per se, has a lot of non-free paths... such as sections 8 and 3b. It's IMO one of the most-non-free free-software licenses.
There is no DRM. There is no DRM. All that can be stopped by this is the fair use. Pirates will open a box, solder the wires (carrying the (digital) HD video to the HDTV and sending the digital audio to the receiver) to a black box with a DSP and voila: an non-DRM-encumbered version is on the fscking internet in a few hours time. This is just stupid.
including MySQL vs Progress IIRC. "there is plenty of case law about whether one piece of code using parts of another as occurs in a library situation constitutes a derivative work". You have cited none. In a library situation, dynamic-linking, code does NOT include parts of other code; they interact as separate, independent, entities (just as I can, in my book, say "oh, god, this is just like the third chapter from Harry Potter and the half-blooded-prince" and I would not be infringing on J.K.Rowlings -- even if you happen to have a copy of the book in your shelf.) "It is quite clear from the wording that this was NOT intended to allow a piece of closed source software to call any functions in a GPLed library." No, it's not clear at all. In fact, if you take the definition of "a work based on the Program" (a contradictory one, up there in section #0 -- hint: a "derivative work" as defined by copyright law (both 17USC and other countries' Berne-based copyright law), is "the result of an intellectualy-novel transformation over the original law." (like a non-automated language translation from English to French)
is just plain difficult if they artificially slow the traffic to 40km/h in a Highway, just for the revenue. You come at 65-75km/h (below the 80km/h limit) and then bam! a 40km/h sign and a camera.
What is the logic of stopping on a red light if there is no one coming? What is the logic of stopping on a stop sign if there is no one coming? The answer: places that could have an yield sign or a yellow-flashing light have stop signs and red lights so the government can make a quick buck. Man, the yellow light time has diminished from 20s to 5-10s all over my town. This really pisses me off. So, IMHO, red lights shouldn't be mandatory (they should be like yield signs: you must yield to someone in the rest of the crossing, but not stop if there is nobody there.)
1. There is NOT ONE provision in the text of the GPL that says you can't link a proprietary program with a GPL'd library. 2. There IS a provision in the text of the GPL that says you can aggregate a GPL'd library with other, proprietary code. 3. There is NOT ONE caselaw -- neither in the US nor elsewhere -- that ruled otherwise, AFAIK. Feel free to contradict me. The whole whining "cannot write proprietary programs for KDE" is FUD. HTH
This is a bug in Windows' PrintScreen, not a property of overlays. Try watching the same movie with "mplayer -vo xv" (activating video overlays) under Linux and then using any "screenshot" program. It will show allright with no problem.
"The publishing industry is going to love DRM"... I would expect from the (book) publishing industry that they would be less illiterate than their music/movie couterparts and loathe DRM for a simple reason: DRM does not work. Ah, and the complementar reason: DRM can not be made to work -- ever.
Why? (again?) Because all DRM tecniques involve cryptographing something and then giving (a) the cryptographed text and (b) the cryptographic key together to the very same person whom you're trying to protect the plaintext from (so said person theoretically could not make extra copies.)
Even if said e-book is otherwise inviolable, one can make a scanner/ocr combo that will read the screen and generate a DRM-free copy of the document.
Please, understand the following: there is no DRM.
In today's digital age, the only ways to be sure about your copyrights are: (a) make a captive audience and be sure they will respect your copyrights in an honour-based system, by producing high-quality content and (b) live in a 1984-like police state that enforces copyrights with no regard at all for the human rights (privacy and freedom of thought, for instance).
Oh, one last thing... for those who think it's impossible to make unbreakable DRM I have a reality check for you: the music industry missed the boat and had no DRM, they got totally screwed. The movie industry did have DRM, but they messed up and there was a weakness in the key generation algorithm - still, it kept them protected from casual piracy for several years. The digital TV companies got it right: most use DRM with no cracks available and have done for years. Given hardware control, as you'd have for any mass-market ebook readers, I see no reason why "unbreakable" DRM cannot be produced. Not provable unbreakable of course, just hard enough to break that nobody bothers, like DirecTV has.
Bwhabwhabhwabha. You are implying that there are no digital TV pirate receivers? ROTFL. Especially DirecTV let-me-see-all-pay-per-view-for-free receivers? You might wanna google the words "Canada" or "ebay" or "bittorrent":-) Hint: there are a lot of DirecTV smartcards emulators, and a lot of people do pirate DTV signals -- and in a lot of countries, this is a civil illicit, and not a criminal one (like it is in the USofA).
Computer #1 in one building, #2 in another. Cron job: Computer #1 voice-calls computer #2 and plays a complex and long sound. Computer #2 records the sound it received. Computer #2 compares the sound it received with the original file. Log errors; if error-rate > x, page you, sleep short time, repeat cron job. Simple, ain't it?
My take? BUYING a laptop to him? NEVER. Now, to salvage one, it's a different matter. My wife has an old Compaq 486 that I'm refurbishing to put it on my 6 year old's room. My present laptop (a Crusoe 5400) or my next laptop will be his, three to four years from now, if my finances permit.
my wife has an (integrated) Compaq 486 that I bought her 10 years ago when sho took office (she is a DA):
Nokia 6680 Compaq 486 clock 220MHz 66MHz RAM 20MB 8MB storage 512MB Flash 210MB HD modem EDGE(>300Kbps) Analog 9600 bps video 176x208x18bit 800x600x16bit IO 1 IRda 1 serial 1 Bluetooth 1 parallel 1 USB 1 keyboard port 1 mouse port
In all aspects, except for the sheer XVGA display SIZE, the cell phone wins.
Where the hell did you learn geography? At school, from third grade on.
There are not five continents, there are seven. Australia, Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa and Antartica. Australia is a country, not a continent. As the other poster said, the continent is called 'Oceania' (Australasia is another name) Europe and Asia are *NOT* independent continents: they are the same mass of land. North America and South America (wtf happened to our friends in Panama, Belize, Honduras, El Salvaador, and the other Centroamerican countries?) are *NOT* independent continents: they are the same mass of land, with the detail that man build a cannal in the istmus of Panama.
Five continents: America, Eurasia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica. America has three subcontinents: North -, South -, and Central America. North and South America aren't separated by sea, only by an ARTIFICIAL cannal in Panama. Eurasia has subcontinents: Europe and Asia. Asia is not considered a subcontinent as a matter of fact, being "the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia", according to wikipedia; it's further subdivided in various regions: North Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Southwest Asia. Back to America, WP says: "The Americas refers collectively to North, Central and South America. The term is a relatively recent and less ambiguous alternative to the name America, which may refer to either the Americas or the USA. The former usage is now often considered archaic in English, but still in use in other languages, where the Americas is often considered to form a single continent. The use of the term America for the United States of America in English and colloquially in other languages is seen by some as politically incorrect (it may be seen as cultural imperialism). Strictly speaking, it is also illogical (for example, it would place South America outside America). Although the context usually makes clear which 'America' is meant, this led to the emergence of the term Americas to take away the ambiguity (in English), if not the illogicality."
Because I consider myself an inhabitant of America, even if I am not a citizen of the US, in Portuguese, I refer to the continent as "América" and to the country as "Estados Unidos" (and its citizens as "Estado-unidenses") and, in English, the continent as America, the country as "the United States" or "USofA", and the citizens "US citizens" if formal and "USofAns" if informal.
You can say all you want that "it won't change a few hundred years of established usage in the English language", but IMHO you are really talking about en_US, not about the other kinds of English. I believe British People refer to the country as "the United States", also.
Feel free to ignore me. MODERATORS: *Please*, feel free to ignore me.
AFAIK: all your employees have physical access to the workstations. Any data they can access and some they shouldn't, they can put in an USB drive. Any data they can put in an USB drive / iPod / laptop HD / other removable media they can take home to your competition. Can one do something to avoid it? Can one put a policy in USB drives to avoid it? And the answer is: no. The only (somewhat) effective measures that you can take are (try to) get good people and treat your employees well, compensating them adequately, etc.
We are on the topic of data theft BY YOUR OWN EMPLOYEES. You know, Bob and Eve are the same person. Again, the disgruntled employee HAVE THE FSCKING KEY, he can access the data, or the guy in the next cubicle (that can have his computer eavesdropped, and his key discovered) has it.
If I really need lessons in crypto, state your name (as in opposition to AC) and indulge me, please.
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to the expression "underground network".
hehe. you are naïve, then.
at least in my experience, they report only on hacks, not pirate releases (like "someone hacked the tenchi browser, and extracted it from the game"), but their forums are well moderated (anyone even asking where to find the former example was moderated out, for instance).
it's just two paragraphs for $DEITY sake.
Ok, I'll tell you, lazy boy: besides cooling with liquid N2, they tweaked the processor and the memory voltages.
Hi Kjella.
I work at Minas Gerais State Assembly (our State legislative house). We have 3000 employees and approximately 700 workstations. Why?
1. Many employees do not need to do paperwork.
2. Many employees have paperwork as a small part of their jobs, and can share a workstation (police officers, especially foot-soldiers would be most certainly part of those). Here, we do have drivers, office-boys, security people, building maintenance people, computer maintenance people, in this category.
3. Many employees have rotating times, and so they can share a workstation (repeating the item 2). Again, we have people like the tachigraphs, that rotate their shifts.
When I wander around (and I do so a lot, because I have 7 different in-house-bred programs to maintain and I many times I have to go to the users' workstations), I often see people doing the non-computer-involving part of their work.
OTOH, we *do* have a lot of servers: web servers, intranet servers, database servers, storage servers. I think there are 15 or so servers, at least, in our network. Some of the data is compartimentalized, so there is a lot of stuff being processed.
Got it?
It will take forever IMHO.
I will explain why I think this. There are three possible scenarios: (1) the GPLv3 is compatible with the GPLv2; (2) the GPLv3 is incompatible with the GPLv2 and has a "fallback to the GPLv2" clause, like he LGPL doas; and (3) the GPLv3 is totally incompatible with the GPLv2, probably by force of being more restrictive than GPLv2.
In the first and second cases, I, as a user, and as a redistributor will Always opt for using the code under the less restrictive conditions. In the third case, I would not touch the code.
All GPLv2 or later will be used by me under GPLv2 terms unless GPLv3 has any advantage (such as permit linking) and no other strings attached.
The GPL, per se, has a lot of non-free paths... such as sections 8 and 3b. It's IMO one of the most-non-free free-software licenses.
The "what is/isn't a derivative work" by Linus can be considered estoppel.
There is no DRM. There is no DRM.
All that can be stopped by this is the fair use.
Pirates will open a box, solder the wires (carrying the (digital) HD video to the HDTV and sending the digital audio to the receiver) to a black box with a DSP and voila: an non-DRM-encumbered version is on the fscking internet in a few hours time.
This is just stupid.
One word (one TLA, really): AVC.
including MySQL vs Progress IIRC.
"there is plenty of case law about whether one piece of code using parts of another as occurs in a library situation constitutes a derivative work". You have cited none. In a library situation, dynamic-linking, code does NOT include parts of other code; they interact as separate, independent, entities (just as I can, in my book, say "oh, god, this is just like the third chapter from Harry Potter and the half-blooded-prince" and I would not be infringing on J.K.Rowlings -- even if you happen to have a copy of the book in your shelf.)
"It is quite clear from the wording that this was NOT intended to allow a piece of closed source software to call any functions in a GPLed library." No, it's not clear at all. In fact, if you take the definition of "a work based on the Program" (a contradictory one, up there in section #0 -- hint: a "derivative work" as defined by copyright law (both 17USC and other countries' Berne-based copyright law), is "the result of an intellectualy-novel transformation over the original law." (like a non-automated language translation from English to French)
is just plain difficult if they artificially slow the traffic to 40km/h in a Highway, just for the revenue. You come at 65-75km/h (below the 80km/h limit) and then bam! a 40km/h sign and a camera.
What is the logic of stopping on a red light if there is no one coming?
What is the logic of stopping on a stop sign if there is no one coming?
The answer: places that could have an yield sign or a yellow-flashing light have stop signs and red lights so the government can make a quick buck.
Man, the yellow light time has diminished from 20s to 5-10s all over my town. This really pisses me off.
So, IMHO, red lights shouldn't be mandatory (they should be like yield signs: you must yield to someone in the rest of the crossing, but not stop if there is nobody there.)
1. There is NOT ONE provision in the text of the GPL that says you can't link a proprietary program with a GPL'd library.
2. There IS a provision in the text of the GPL that says you can aggregate a GPL'd library with other, proprietary code.
3. There is NOT ONE caselaw -- neither in the US nor elsewhere -- that ruled otherwise, AFAIK.
Feel free to contradict me.
The whole whining "cannot write proprietary programs for KDE" is FUD.
HTH
find me a Linux distro that even understands the concept of base OS
Here it is
HTH
This is a bug in Windows' PrintScreen, not a property of overlays. Try watching the same movie with "mplayer -vo xv" (activating video overlays) under Linux and then using any "screenshot" program. It will show allright with no problem.
"The publishing industry is going to love DRM"... I would expect from the (book) publishing industry that they would be less illiterate than their music/movie couterparts and loathe DRM for a simple reason: DRM does not work. Ah, and the complementar reason: DRM can not be made to work -- ever.
... for those who think it's impossible to make unbreakable DRM I have a reality check for you: the music industry missed the boat and had no DRM, they got totally screwed. The movie industry did have DRM, but they messed up and there was a weakness in the key generation algorithm - still, it kept them protected from casual piracy for several years. The digital TV companies got it right: most use DRM with no cracks available and have done for years. Given hardware control, as you'd have for any mass-market ebook readers, I see no reason why "unbreakable" DRM cannot be produced. Not provable unbreakable of course, just hard enough to break that nobody bothers, like DirecTV has.
:-) Hint: there are a lot of DirecTV smartcards emulators, and a lot of people do pirate DTV signals -- and in a lot of countries, this is a civil illicit, and not a criminal one (like it is in the USofA).
Why? (again?) Because all DRM tecniques involve cryptographing something and then giving (a) the cryptographed text and (b) the cryptographic key together to the very same person whom you're trying to protect the plaintext from (so said person theoretically could not make extra copies.)
Even if said e-book is otherwise inviolable, one can make a scanner/ocr combo that will read the screen and generate a DRM-free copy of the document.
Please, understand the following: there is no DRM.
In today's digital age, the only ways to be sure about your copyrights are: (a) make a captive audience and be sure they will respect your copyrights in an honour-based system, by producing high-quality content and (b) live in a 1984-like police state that enforces copyrights with no regard at all for the human rights (privacy and freedom of thought, for instance).
Oh, one last thing
Bwhabwhabhwabha. You are implying that there are no digital TV pirate receivers? ROTFL. Especially DirecTV let-me-see-all-pay-per-view-for-free receivers? You might wanna google the words "Canada" or "ebay" or "bittorrent"
HTH
IIRC mySQL AB's MaxDB has an Oracle emulation mode, and so does Firebird with Fyracle.
Computer #1 in one building, #2 in another.
Cron job:
Computer #1 voice-calls computer #2 and plays a complex and long sound.
Computer #2 records the sound it received.
Computer #2 compares the sound it received with the original file.
Log errors; if error-rate > x, page you, sleep short time, repeat cron job.
Simple, ain't it?
My take? BUYING a laptop to him? NEVER.
Now, to salvage one, it's a different matter.
My wife has an old Compaq 486 that I'm refurbishing to put it on my 6 year old's room. My present laptop (a Crusoe 5400) or my next laptop will be his, three to four years from now, if my finances permit.
my wife has an (integrated) Compaq 486 that I bought her 10 years ago when sho took office (she is a DA):
Nokia 6680 Compaq 486
clock 220MHz 66MHz
RAM 20MB 8MB
storage 512MB Flash 210MB HD
modem EDGE(>300Kbps) Analog 9600 bps
video 176x208x18bit 800x600x16bit
IO 1 IRda 1 serial
1 Bluetooth 1 parallel
1 USB 1 keyboard port
1 mouse port
In all aspects, except for the sheer XVGA display SIZE, the cell phone wins.
Where the hell did you learn geography?
At school, from third grade on.
There are not five continents, there are seven. Australia, Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa and Antartica.
Australia is a country, not a continent. As the other poster said, the continent is called 'Oceania' (Australasia is another name)
Europe and Asia are *NOT* independent continents: they are the same mass of land.
North America and South America (wtf happened to our friends in Panama, Belize, Honduras, El Salvaador, and the other Centroamerican countries?) are *NOT* independent continents: they are the same mass of land, with the detail that man build a cannal in the istmus of Panama.
Five continents: America, Eurasia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica.
America has three subcontinents: North -, South -, and Central America.
North and South America aren't separated by sea, only by an ARTIFICIAL cannal in Panama.
Eurasia has subcontinents: Europe and Asia.
Asia is not considered a subcontinent as a matter of fact, being "the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia", according to wikipedia; it's further subdivided in various regions: North Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Southwest Asia.
Back to America, WP says: "The Americas refers collectively to North, Central and South America. The term is a relatively recent and less ambiguous alternative to the name America, which may refer to either the Americas or the USA. The former usage is now often considered archaic in English, but still in use in other languages, where the Americas is often considered to form a single continent. The use of the term America for the United States of America in English and colloquially in other languages is seen by some as politically incorrect (it may be seen as cultural imperialism). Strictly speaking, it is also illogical (for example, it would place South America outside America). Although the context usually makes clear which 'America' is meant, this led to the emergence of the term Americas to take away the ambiguity (in English), if not the illogicality."
Because I consider myself an inhabitant of America, even if I am not a citizen of the US, in Portuguese, I refer to the continent as "América" and to the country as "Estados Unidos" (and its citizens as "Estado-unidenses") and, in English, the continent as America, the country as "the United States" or "USofA", and the citizens "US citizens" if formal and "USofAns" if informal.
You can say all you want that "it won't change a few hundred years of established usage in the English language", but IMHO you are really talking about en_US, not about the other kinds of English. I believe British People refer to the country as "the United States", also.
Feel free to ignore me.
MODERATORS: *Please*, feel free to ignore me.
and we'll see if they don't censor any mail.
AFAIK: all your employees have physical access to the workstations. Any data they can access and some they shouldn't, they can put in an USB drive. Any data they can put in an USB drive / iPod / laptop HD / other removable media they can take home to your competition.
Can one do something to avoid it? Can one put a policy in USB drives to avoid it?
And the answer is: no. The only (somewhat) effective measures that you can take are (try to) get good people and treat your employees well, compensating them adequately, etc.
I think you need to relearn some cryptography.
?!
We are on the topic of data theft BY YOUR OWN EMPLOYEES. You know, Bob and Eve are the same person. Again, the disgruntled employee HAVE THE FSCKING KEY, he can access the data, or the guy in the next cubicle (that can have his computer eavesdropped, and his key discovered) has it.
If I really need lessons in crypto, state your name (as in opposition to AC) and indulge me, please.